Clothes-drier



(No Model.)

4 G DRAKE.

CLOTHES DRIER.

No. 603,132. Patented Apr. 26, 1898.

WITNESSES IN VENTOR M ATTORNEYS.

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UNITED STATES PATENT tribe,

CLOTH ES-DRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 603,132, dated April26, 1898.

Application filed April 24,1897. Serial No. 683,610. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES DRAKE, of Mannington, in the county ofMarion and State of West Virginia, have invented a new andusefullmprovement in Clothes-Briers, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description.

The object of myinvention is to providea clothes-drier of exceedinglysimple,-durable, and economic construction and which may be mounted upona support or upon a bracket or suspended from an overhead support andturned readily eitherto the right or to the left.

Another object of the invention is to con struct a drier in an economicmanner and so shape it that it may be placed in a position to occupy butlittle room in storage.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed outin the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a sectional View through the drier, taken substantially onthe line 1 l of Fig. 2, a portion of the support for the drier beinglikewise in section; andFig. 2 isa plan view of the drier and thesupport shown in Fig. 1.

The body A of the drieris preferably made as illustrated, in which it isshown as formed of one piece of wire of the requisite thickness, whichis bent upon itself to form a helical coil, the wire at the center beingcarried downward and bent upon itself to provide a vertically-disposedeye 10 and a pin 11 below the eye. The members of the coil arestrengthened, and the coils are prevented from sagging to too great anextent by connecting the members of the coil with cords or light wires12, which extend radially from the center, as is particularly shown inFig. 2.

In the drawings the clothes-drier is shown as carried by a supportconsisting of legs 13, arranged to form a tripod, the tripod beingpivotally connected at its upper end with the body portion 14: and thelegs being limited in their outward movement by means of wires or otherflexible braces 15, located near the The body or block 14 of the supportin this instance has an opening in its top, which receives the pin 11 ofthe drier, the eye resting on the top portion of the block or body, asillustrated in Fig. 1, whereby the drier proper is held in a horizontalposition and may be freely revolved to the right or to the left, asrequired.

The flexible braces or strings 12, connecting the coils of the helix,prevent said helix from springing or stretching downward when suspendedat the top farther than the adj ustment of the braces will allow. Thebraces also support all the excess of load above that which is supportedby the elasticity of the wire of which the helix is made.

When the device is not needed, it is flattened and may be stood upagainst the wall, occupying but little room.

I desire it to be understood that the coil from which the body of thedrier is made may be given any shape without departing from the spiritof the inventionas, for example, it may be polygonal, diamond, or oftriangular formation. It is evident that clothes hanging on any sectionof the helical body do not hang immediately over or under anothersection, and hence the air can have free access to all the garments andall parts of the drier.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. A clothes-drier, consisting of a wire bent into ahelix, the inner end thereof extending to the center and being bent toform an eye, lying in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the helix,then extending perpendicular to the plane of the helix, the extreme endthereof forming a pivot upon which the whole may revolve, substantiallyas described.

2. A clothes-drier, consisting of a wire bent into a helix, the innerend thereof terminat ing in a pivot which is perpendicular to the planeof the helix and is connected to the body of the helix byalaterally-extending eye which acts as a shoulder, and a series ofradially-extending connectors attached to the coils of the helix andlimiting their relative movements, substantially as described.

3. Aclothes-drier, consisting of a wire bent into a helix, the inner endthereof extending to the center and being bent to form an eye lying/in aplaneperpendieularto the plane of bentintocoilsofsuccessively-increasing size, 10 e thehelix and then extending:perpendicular i' the coils being ;i oined by radialbmces or eon-v totheplane of the helix, the extyeme and nect0rs,and acentralsupparting-pivotformed ,I I I, thereofforminga pivot upon which theWhole =upon the inner end of said wire, substantially 5 may 1ev01Ve,anda folding-sl'andzhaving a :as described. 7 e y I I socket in itsupper end adapted to receive 1 i "CHARLES DRAKE. J 3 3 said pivot audiosupport the helimsnb'stan- I \Vitnesses: J I I iially as describecl I Ii I I V J. W. HUGHEs, I

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4. A clothes-drier, formedrof a single wire

